Joseph says Sunwolves role will reap Rugby World Cup rewards

On the other hand, Michael Leitch has played Super footy for the Chiefs for the last few seasons, Ok, a broken thumb two years ago, but surely he has benefitted from the experience of playing in the hardest Rugby comp and conference on the planet to take into the Sunwolves and National teams :)...these players need real rugby, not just your local Hong Kong Saturday afternoon team, bro...

On the contrary, he should keep as many national team players as possible away from the Sunwolves, so they can rest and avoid injury.

The only way for Japan to go through in 2019 is NOT to play in super rugby in 2019.  Japan , contrary , to the big nations, suffers from every injury of a starter as the 2nd and 3rd line replacements are not equal but less in quality.